Did he dye his hair blue/purple? Cause that seems to be a popular in-demand hair style preferred by the cool startups.
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Forget surgeons. My dentist is nearing retirement age and a younger dentist was brought in to be groomed to replace him. The youngish dentist on more than a few occasions mentioned he couldn't/wouldn't do certain procedures because one with more experience was necessary.
The 'young' dentist is no more than 30 years old. And in coding world, if you are over 30, you are considered over the hill.
> The experience is not valued here. So what is? The lack of experience?
What is valued is someone who can get productive with new trendy framework right away, while receiving minimal pay.
The successes of startups in Silicon Valley really drove up the compensation of programmers. But these same startups have founders/managers who openly state they prefer younger programmers, and direct their HR/recruiters to act accordingly. And now, we have whole classes of programmers who can't get a job at all.
It's pretty obvious no recruiter lost his/her job for passing on resumes of younger programmers.
Also, the SV is really the bastion of anti discrimination. Which is great. But they replaced it with something else, ageism.
Just my 2 cents.
Who is their target market? I'd like to know.
Reading the diplomatic cable by the British ambassador, it makes sense to me now.
Japanese army and navy in WW2 were famously, well how should I say this, antagonistic against each other. They didn't share information with each other. Army even had own aircraft carriers to transport planes to distant islands. They couldn't or didn't want to rely on the Japanese navy.
1. While I was reading about the Falkland war's naval action, I learned British warships at one time (70s - 80s ?) were specifically equipped with laser emitters to try to distract jet fighter pilots flying into attack the war ships. This was when some jet fighters still had to fly in close to the warships to attack them.
This was mentioned in the book "One Hundred Days: The Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group Commander (Bluejacket Books)", by Adm. Sandy Woodward.
2. Since a few years ago, US air crew members (specifically on low/slow ones like helicopters) flying around the DMZ area in S. Korea are required to wear protective goggles to protect their eyes from laser beams pointed by North Korean soldiers. This apparently happened a few times and so wearing the protective goggle became a requirement for the crews.
3. Few years ago, a man (fisherman ?) was swept out to the sea at night off one of the Hawaiian islands. He was able to stay afloat but unable to swim into shore. When he heard a helicopter searching for him, he pointed a laser beam emitter into the sky. He pointed out into the sky but away from the helicopter. This helped the air crew locate him quickly for the rescue.
Edit: I got downvoted but what part of my statement about China incorrect?
So how about kids from single parent family or poor neighborhoods who cannot eat out and/or cannot travel because of lack of money? Are they less rounded kids too?
Just because you are asian and do 'Racquetball, violin, AP calculus' doesn't make one asian same as the next asian. How damn racist of you.
Maybe you grew up in a poor neighborhood but have incredibly supportive parents/family?
Maybe you grew up in a billionaire family but with parents who are never around because they have business to run and places to go (as they can afford to)?
And the 'secret' part of the story really really bugs me. Why don't we turn US tax code into a state secret so that rich people/business cannot try to game the system to pay less tax?
EDIT: I got downvotes. But really, I'd like to know who gets to decide how oppressed you are?
As for me, of course not. I don't want other kids to suffer. And I'm sure it's the same for everyone else.
But why should I or my children who did the right things (study, sacrifice, etc) suffer because some faceless bureaucrats gets to decide who get an advantage via a 'secret' score?
But something else was brought in to replace them all. And it's called culture-fitism and ageism.
It is both amazing and slightly terrifying... Imagine when this weapon can be hand carried by an individual soldier. Or even a crew served weapon like a 'Ma Deuce".
>> Annual profit/revenue (not quite sure) of Samsung Electronics (not Samsung overall, just Electronics) was greater than or equal to top 9 Japanese electronic firms combined, including Sony.
I think the comparison does not include Sony Films though? Not quite sure.
A lot of people look at the economic miracle of West Germany and Japan post WW2 with admiration. Amazing accomplishments for sure. But both nations already had well established education, technology, institutions, and etc that were already present at end of WW2. Sure, a lot of it had been destroyed/disrupted because of the war. But they were there.
South Korea on the other hand had none of that. S. Korea never had the core ingredients needed for economic recovery. In 1945, literacy rate in Korea was 22%. Korea as a whole was just barely joining the modern world around 1900, a lot of it due to the colonization by Japan.
It is an amazing achievement.
I think S. Korea also feels more threatened than others because it shares land/sea border with China, Russia, and Japan. China/Russia, 2 most powerful nations with non-democratically elected government...
EDIT: Before someone yells at me for putting down Japan and/or putting Korea on a pedestal, I am just stating a fact I read. For sure, Japan has had amazing achievement in the past.
Edit: In fact, what they say/act that they are shocked about is often a projection they put up to make sure they get reelected.
I agree free market (with certain safeguards) is usually the best path for a society to sustain itself and prosper.
But I feel private equity firms are definitely not good for a free market to sustain itself. And yet they and their lobbyists will insist free market is the best for our society, use that line to prevent any regulations over what they do.
The owner can say, hey I worked for this and I need to exit with a plan.
Well, the employees can say we worked for this and we need to make sure we will have our jobs in 5 - 10 years.
I am working in a company that used to be privately owned, and was sold to a PE. It happened before I joined. The ones who are still here tell me the night and day difference in how the employees are treated before and after the sale. The treatment I'm talking about is how the employees are compensated.
But how often do interviewees showing up with gross clothes, swear, or be rude to interviewer?
I'd say almost 0?
Focus on sales is what doomed other video conferencing. Sales in such context usually means they focused on convuncing some exec to buy the product, who inevitably used it personally not that much.
Zoom seems to have focused on tech and end user experience.
The Chinese army set up a major base in Djibouti in the Horn of Africa just a few years ago. It is the PLAN's first overseas military base and was built at a cost of US$590 million. I'm sure it won't be the last.
If China can do what US can, they will do it. To think otherwise would just be naive.
Oh lol. I just applied for a job that asked for salary expectation. Well I guess its ok. I spent minimal amount of time uploading my resume and entering data into 4 webpage.